Say goodbye to tangles—this 19-inch, three-tier design allows you to easily store necklaces of a variety of shapes and sizes.
Jewelry organizers that will completely transform your vanity|PopSci Commerce Team|October 14, 2020|Popular Science
Meyer, who founded The Commons Project Foundation last year, says that as they began building the coronavirus platform, they realized that the confounding tangle of regulations was a major obstacle to reviving travel.
The tech startup trying to restore our faith in COVID-free air travel|Vivienne Walt|October 7, 2020|Fortune
Similarly, in subatomic physics, renormalization tells physicists when they can deal with a relatively simple proton as opposed to its tangle of interior quarks.
How Mathematical ‘Hocus-Pocus’ Saved Particle Physics|Charlie Wood|September 17, 2020|Quanta Magazine
You can fish this setup as a hand line, but tangles are inevitable.
This essential survival tool can save your life 10 different ways|By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life|September 15, 2020|Popular Science
Tenet’s Labor Day weekend release, then, faces a tangle of uncertainty.
Will ‘Tenet’ revive U.S. movie theaters as it’s finally released?|dzanemorris|September 3, 2020|Fortune
The tangle of enormous fake diamonds resting on top of her cleavage sparkles at every flashbulb.
And The Escort of The Year Is… Backstage at The Sex Oscars|Scott Bixby|March 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pettet threw his head back and laughed as he recounted his tangle with the police.
Even an Arrest Can’t Stop Clayton Pettet From Losing His Virginity in an Art Show|Nico Hines|December 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Its solution—a tangle of suspicion that spreads from a police unit to local drug ring—is clever and well constructed.
‘Low Winter Sun’ Might Be the New ‘Wire’|Andrew Romano|August 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The bloodshed began at the end of the bridge amid a tangle of flyovers near the Egyptian Museum.
Egypt’s Military Is Waiting for the Worst|Christopher Dickey, Mike Giglio|July 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Dressed in shades of green from lime to olive, she had a tangle of glittery chains around her neck.
Election Night 2012: Fashion of Jubilation And Mourning|Robin Givhan|November 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
Passing through this, a tangle of vines swinging with the great iron gate, we followed the walk toward the house.
Virginia: The Old Dominion|Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
It was a formality, he said, to straighten out some tangle, so I did it.
The Best Policy|Elliott Flower
"I know——" declared Isobel, feeling that, because she was a Senior, she must straighten out this tangle.
Highacres|Jane Abbott
Early in the afternoon, on looking out the shack door, I saw a tangle of clouds on the sky-line.
The Prairie Wife|Arthur Stringer
And in talk with him she could straighten out her tangle of impressions, her secret doubts and fears.
Far to Seek|Maud Diver
British Dictionary definitions for tangle (1 of 2)
tangle1
/ (ˈtæŋɡəl) /
noun
a confused or complicated mass of hairs, lines, fibres, etc, knotted or coiled together
a complicated problem, condition, or situation
verb
to become or cause to become twisted together in a confused mass
(intr often foll by with) to come into conflict; contendto tangle with the police
(tr)to involve in matters which hinder or confuseto tangle someone in a shady deal
(tr)to ensnare or trap, as in a net
Derived forms of tangle
tanglement, nountangler, nountangly, adjective
Word Origin for tangle
C14 tangilen, variant of tagilen, probably of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish dialect taggla to entangle
British Dictionary definitions for tangle (2 of 2)
tangle2
tangle weed
/ (ˈtæŋɡəl) /
noun
alternative names (esp Scot) for oarweed
Word Origin for tangle
C16: of Scandinavian origin: compare Danish tang seaweed